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I feel like having technologically weak education systems are entrapment for people like this.
You put these kids in a cage (school) with other abusive children and then make them interact with that cage and wonder why they keep smashing the cage up.. While they're full of anger, hormones and mentally developing, but sure yeah lets just send the smart kid to prison for 20 years instead of sending them to go be red team.
Or is it because AI took all the junior opsec roles, there's nobody willing to have him pawned off on them
A culture that weaponises its legal system to protect technical systems that are secured with zipties and bad passwords and band-aid solutions is just asking to get absolutely shat upon by external actors
He was your best shot at protecting yourself from Iranians.. lol
Edit: This boy should have been scooped up by the CIA or FBI or something. Maybe he could have helped prevent the FBI losing 100TB of epstein data due to hackers breaking in and thinking it was someones CSAM torrent seed box. The incompetence shown in the depositions was galling.
This kid didn’t hack into school systems to change grades- he was extorting millions of dollars from large and small companies to buy drugs and jewelry. I think you are missing the gravity of what he did.
He's following in your national leaders footsteps of shaking people down for money, its the American Dream, baby.
That's exactly what I thought when I read this. Or, the right guidance to persecute those who would speak truth to power and expose the G-d-awful truth of who we really are, in our very poor, misguided leadership.
I just can't imagine being so obtuse as to see the sheer leverage they have over this kid and the fact that they desperately, desperately need technical competence in the US agencies right now.
They could lean on this kid forever to make him a good little agent, but no, send the twink boy to the assrape box. Rehabilitation? Whats that.
You romanticizing a situation that doesn’t deserve it. Skilled or not- he hurt people for money. He’s not a Robin Hood fighting the evil corporatists or government.
Hurting people for money is the model of capital. He's just trying to get that bag like your president does.
That’s a straw man, stay on topic. Nobody should hurt people for money. Saying that this kid deserves a nice job as a reward is just a sycophantic as the right covering for trump.
Oh yeah for sure, he totally deserves more than his entire lifespan so far being violated in the asshole.
You are absolutely unhinged, a bad person and should think about what the fuck it is you're saying.
Edit: I love lemmy, not having to self-censor is a delight.
Never said he deserved life in prison- I said he doesn’t deserve a reward. Again, you’re reading too much into what I said and are projecting an awful lot. My point is the kid did a bad thing, he doesn’t deserve praise. How hard is that to understand?
Theres a far difference between praise and "having to be the FBIs lil' intern bitch for a decade" with the sword of damocles of suspended prosecution hanging over your head.
I feel like that's a core requirement for the CIA though...
hurting people for money is the core tenant of being a cop, a soldier or a spy. They're all different ways for the state to wield violence.
Then he belongs in jail same as Trump
That is my point. I refuse to be okay with sending a boy to get his behind busted for 20 years for trying to get that bag while the country is otherwise lawless.
You lose the argument when you threaten to leak MILLIONS of our children’s private data.
In a nation where people are desperate to get out of their position being stomped on by the epstein class, I don't blame them for trying to get that bag and bounce.
You lose the argument when the authorities give the same private data to palantir.
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Yeah, we all have to have a red line. Going after children’s data is a net negative. Hackers have all of these terrible companies to extort. No need to bring children into this.
"Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history"
He is a child, you fucking moron and your kind of vitriol just sent him off to get fucked five ways from friday in the US's hellish prison system
My red line is putting anyone in there while there are worse people dropping bombs on brown children.
I guarantee if a child can get that data, someone else got it before him anyway and kept their mouth shut.
Fuck your red line.
I didn’t say that being sent to prison was the desired outcome. But at the very least, there needs to be some amount of accountability involved.
Also, chill out. Get some bud, and chill out.
Bro, no, I will not chill. You need to rethink your priorities as a human.
Thank you for your feedback. You really should take a chill pill. Your activism consists of shouting down anyone who doesn’t pass your purity test. Not a good look.
No, I think you're a cruel person. Your priorities are all wrong. I do not wish on you the things you're wishing on others, regardless of any actions you could take. I'm not cruel and vindictive.
Ok, then you agree that we should be protecting childrens data? So then something like a bug bounty would've been an overall plus here? Kid gets to test his skills, a new vulnerability in the system gets found, and everyone wins.
The website was vulnerable, if he didnt do it someone more malicious wouldve. They shouldve offered a bug bounty if they actually cared about the data.
That would have been a better outcome, but unfortunately that is not what happened. The kid wasn’t on some altruistic journey, he hacked a company whose business is dealing with tens of millions of children’s data. Prison was not the only remedy available, and I don’t relish in the thought of sending a young person there. Could’ve been some deferred action in conjunction with a program that steered the teen back onto a track of help rather than theft.
Poor argument.
jsyk you should check the whole thread and realise how ratio'd you're getting. Perhaps rethink your priorities and how you view the world.
I stand by my words, don’t care about up/downvotes.
You have selected your hill. And thats ok. You're still wrong though.
Appreciate it.